Abstract
Students with high academic anxiety can cause a decrease in learning motivation. This situation will damage the learning achievement achieved by students. The purpose of this study was to look at the effect of cinematherapy on reducing student academic anxiety. This study uses a one-group pretest-posttest design experimental design. A total of 7 students in SMP Metro 1 were the subjects in this study. Subject selection uses a purposive sampling technique based on high academic anxiety criteria from the results of the academic anxiety scale score. The data analysis technique used is the Wilcoxon test. Statistical test results show that there is an effect of cinematherapy on the decrease in students' academic anxiety. The findings of this study prove that cinema is effective in reducing student academic anxiety at SMPN 1 in the city of Metro, Lampung.
Highlights
The low learning achievement and the difficulty of achieving progress for students is one of the factors that are in the spotlight of the education world
This research was conducted to see the effect of cinematherapy on the reduction of social anxiety in SMPN 1 Metro students
The results showed that through cinematherapy and significantly reduced the academic anxiety of students at SMPN 1 Metro
Summary
The low learning achievement and the difficulty of achieving progress for students is one of the factors that are in the spotlight of the education world. When students are confronted with lessons that are considered severe, the teacher's assertiveness in teaching, high grades become orientation. These examinations have been scheduled or not; at the same time, students experience anxiety. Students who find it challenging to learn, in the process of absorbing the subject matter delivered by the teacher will experience difficulties so that he is not optimal and even unable to master the material, tends to avoid the lesson, ignoring the tasks that become his obligation, the decline in grades and learning achievement decline, which will eventually boil down to lazy learning (Rudiansyah, Amirullah, & Yunus, 2016). The way an individual responds to anxiety will have a positive or negative effect on him
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